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Year-End U.S. Shipment Reports
• 2007- 2008 U.S. Manufacturers' Unit Shipments and Value Chart
The Manufacturers’ Unit Shipments and Dollar Value Charts provide current and last years’ U.S. recording industry data on key industry formats (CD’s, cassettes, downloads etc.). Shipment information is not displayed by genre. See Annual Consumer Profile Chart. Older data back to 1973 is available by subscription only. Learn about our new shipment statistics database subscription here (link).
• 2007-2008 Year-End Market Report on Latin Music Shipments (new 2 year PDF needed)
Because of Latin music’s importance to the American recording industry, the RIAA began collecting comprehensive shipment data from the Latin sector. These figures, which are incorporated into the overall U.S. Market Report, break out the amount of Latin product into the domestic marketplace. Latin music is defined as product 51% or more in the Spanish language.


